Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...
...have a strange, haunting beauty. But in the daytime Butte is anything but beautiful to look at-"by dark a diamond set in jet, but by day ... an uncorseted wench dissipated from the night before." Last week Butte (pop. 37,000) had a book all to itself. The book (Copper Camp; Hastings House; $2.75) is the latest of the series compiled by the late Federal Writers' Project...
...memories in Butte are long enough to go back to the hot day in July 1864 when G.O. Humphrey and William Allison struck gold on Butte Hill a few years before the hill's true wealth-copper -was discovered. But more than one Butte citizen could recall the icy December day in 1881 when an old-fashioned locomotive huffed & puffed up the newly completed Utah & Northern narrow-gauge railroad to connect Butte with Ogden, Utah (and the outside world) by rail...
Thenceforward Butte grew, its local economy joined in unbreakable wedlock to the price of copper, its pioneer past forever coloring its psychology, its rough-&-tumble legend becoming part of the legend of the U.S. Some of Butte's legend...
Married. Lele von Harrenreich Daly, marrying widow of Anaconda copper-rich Marcus Daly, her second husband; and Richard Franklin Ford, 46, balding son of the late Standard Oilman Harry Smith Ford; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Upper Nyack...